Friday Food Review - Morningstar Farms Breakfast Strips

Yes folks it's yet another blog meme. I apologize if this blog seems to be over-memed (is that even a word? lol) at times but I have found that the memes are a convenient way to keep all of the blog content organized, up to date, and as a way to let you - my wonderful and awesome readers - know what to expect. So here's how this new meme will work. I will review a food - preferably something healthy - and give you my opinion of that food. Should you trust my opinion, well no you don't have to, but I do know a lot about food - just look at me lol. Of course, the best way of all is for you to try the food yourself, but I can give you a heads up on what to try or what to avoid. I will first give the foods a rating using *** (asterisks or stars - whatever you want to call them) with one * being the worst and five * being best. Then I will give you a summary on my experience with the food. See, easy enough!
So here is the first review:

Morningstar Farms Breakfast Strips

Taste *
Appearance *
Texture *
Smell *
Cost *
Nutritional Value ***
Ease to prepare **

I purchased these mainly out of curiosity. Generally when I want bacon I eat turkey bacon but I do not like the thought of eating so much fat everyday so these (the veggie strips) seemed like a good idea. I am a fan of a lot of Morningstar Farms products so I thought that these would be pretty good as well. Wrong! These failed miserably. If ever there was a food that could be classified as a frankenfood then this would be it. From the very look and texture of these right down to the cooking process I did not find much to like about these! The first time I microwaved these according to the directions and they came out burnt. The second time I tried cooking them a few seconds shorter. They still were slightly burnt / overcooked. Despite what these looked like (they reminded me of a child's crayon drawing of what bacon would look like), I still decided to be brave and give them a taste. From the second I stuck those in my mouth I was regretting that decision. These really did have a taste that would remind you of burnt cardboard! The texture was odd, the smell was worse and the taste was unbelievably bad. The high price is another bad mark against them. I paid $3.49 for 8 little strips - definitely not my idea of a good value for something that will now just sit in my freezer until I decide to toss them. The only thing going for these is the nutritional value - 60 calories and 4.5 grams of fat for 2 strips. I think you would do just as well with turkey bacon at 70 calories and 11 grams of fat for 2 slices. My overall opinion is that if you are craving bacon stick to turkey bacon and pat it with a paper towel to remove some of the grease and fat, but whatever you do I suggest you avoid these at all cost!